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  Win a Trip to Bumbershoot '12

  August 2, 2012 – Would you like to win a trip to Bumbershoot? Of course you would! Enter here and one lucky winner (and a guest) will score two gold passes to the fest, Hotel Deca accommodations for four nights, and airfare within the continental U.S. The festival takes place September 1-3 at the Seattle Center, and this year's lineup features Skrillex, Jane's Addiction, Gotye, Mac Miller, M83, Passion Pit, and many more! …
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  Get to Seattle's Bumbershoot This Year!

  August 1, 2011 – Bumbershoot is Seattle's amazing music & arts festival featuring 250 showcases of music, dance, theatre, film, visual arts, and more. All this goes down in over three days at Seattle Center (right by the Space Needle!) with performances from the likes of Mavis Staples, the Kills, Wiz Khalifa, and many more. To make sure you don't miss anything this year, use the customizable Bumbershoot schedule powered by SCHED! …
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  Best of Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival

  September 8, 2009 – THE BEST BEST HOME-SUBURB HEROES: MODEST MOUSEFormed 16 years ago in Issaquah, a Seattle bedroom community, Modest Mouse regaled fans with a generous set spanning their entire career, from "Dramamine" (found on their debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About) to "Satellite Skin" (from the new EP, No One's First and You're Next). …
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  New Death Cab Live Performances!

  September 17, 2008 – If you couldn't catch Seattle's Death Cab for Cutie parade their chart-topping new record, the SPIN-praised Narrow Stairs, across the country this summer don't fret -- SPIN.com has you covered. Below, check out footage of the quartet's much-anticipated homecoming show at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival as Ben Gibbard -- woodsmen chops in full effect -- leads his crew of merry indie rockers through the epic, slow building "Bixby …
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  Superchunk Live at Bumbershoot

  September 3, 2008 – The sad truth: Not all youngsters gallivanting under Seattle's Space Needle Monday turned out to heed SPIN deputy editor Steve Kandell's advice and catch indie rock luminaries Superchunk's rare live set in Memorial Stadium. But despite the not-so-thick crowd, frontman Mac McCaughan and crew's tangled indie-pop hooked many a fervent, fist pumping, and -- at times -- moshing 30-something clad in weathered rock tees. …
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  Minus the Bear Live at Bumbershoot

  September 3, 2008 – While fans fisted and elbowed their way to the front of Memorial Stadium Monday night for a closer look at festival-closing headliner Death Cab for Cutie, fellow Seattleites Minus the Bear mounted the Rockstar Stage across the festival grounds and -- with their decidedly different math rock sound -- showed Bumbershoot concertgoers that Ben Gibbard and crew aren't the only heavyweights in town. Playing tunes from one side of their catal …
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  Stone Temple Pilots Live at Bumbershoot

  September 2, 2008 – Nevermind the semi-dorky, stoner-made visuals (flames, nubile babes on racing cars, lava lamp psychedelics), reunited alt-rock quartet Stone Temple Pilots strolled into Memorial Stadium more than 30 minutes late Saturday night (literally walking off the tour bus and on to the stage) and truly handed it to fans with a kick-ass set of riff-heavy classics featuring Scott Weiland's high-pitched growl. And the lack of new material, which ca …
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  Beck Live at Bumbershoot

  September 2, 2008 – Between his shining moments of absolute genius -- Odelay, Sea Change, Mellow Gold -- Beck has had his creative and commercially unsuccessful moments. But on the opening night of Seattle's Bumbershoot, SoCal's ever-morphing slacker savant validated his staying power by doing what he's done so many times before: changing up his sound, bringing new life to old tunes, and clearly illustrating he's mastered the art of the surprise. …
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  Bumbershoot '08: Day Three Highlights

  September 2, 2008 – After a brief spell of rain, the sun returned to Seattle Center Monday on the final day of the 2008 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, allowing an apt closure to what has been an action packed Labor Day weekend. Indie rock mainstays and hometown heroes Death Cab for Cutie -- who hadn't played a Seattle gig in over two years -- closed out the festival to a bursting-at-the-seams Memorial Stadium, accepting the crown as their hometown's …
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  Bumbershoot '08: Welcome to Seattle!

  August 29, 2008 – After spending the summer traveling from music festival to music festival, SPIN.com has finally reached the final -- and arguably the best -- event in the summer circuit: Seattle's Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival. We arrived this morning and are resting up for the main event, which kicks off tomorrow. Check out our welcoming video below, filmed just moments ago at the Seattle Center. …
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